The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685 by Stephen Gaukroger, Stephen Gaukroger

The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685

Stephen Gaukroger, Stephen Gaukroger

576 pages • first pub 2006 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its e...

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